House Organ 1

Civilization and Sludge: Notes on the History of the
Management of Human Excreta
By Abbie Rockefeller 3

Symposia
Steven Vogel’s Against Nature: An Environmental
Ethic for Ecological Socialists?
Introduction 19
Andrew Light 20
Lorenzo C. Simpson 24
Alan P. Rudy 28
David Macauley 32
Steven Vogel 35

David Harvey’s Justice, Nature and the Geography of
Difference: A Meta-Theory for Ecological Socialists?
Chris Roberts 41
Raymond Rogers 43
Noel Castree 49
John B. Foster 55

Street Ecology
El Niño and Year One
By Mike Davis 61

Environmental Justice
The Politics of Gender in the Los Angeles Bus Riders’
Union/Sindicato de Pasajeros
By Rita Burgos and Laura Pulido 75

Social Movements
NGOs and Social Movements: A Study in Contrasts
By Alex Demirovic 83

Nature Prospects
Child’s Play
By Kate Soper 93

Virtual Interview
Asia in Crisis II: An Interview with David Felix 99

Human Nature
The Illusion of the True Self: A Critique of Contemporary
Bourgeois Psychoanalysis
By Richard Lichtman 113

Ripples In Clio’s Pond
Medieval Florence and the Barriers to Growth Revisted
By J. Donald Hughes/Yves Lenoir 133

Review Essays
Ricardo Carrere and Larry Lohman: Pulping the South:
Industrial Tree Plantations and the World Paper Economy
Patrick McCully: Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and the
Politics of Large Dams
By Juan Martínez Alier 141

Blaine Harden: A River Lost: The Life and DEath of the
Columbia
John Barry: Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood
of 1927 and How It Changed America
By Tim Stroshane 147

J. Baird Callicott: Earth’s Insights: A Multicultural
Survey of Ecological Ethics
By Jane Freimiller 151
Roger S. Gottlieb, ed.: The Ecological Community: Environmental Challenges for Philosophy, Politics and Morality

By Jane Freimiller 153
Asoka Bandarage: Women, Population and Global Crisis:
A Political-Economic Analysis

By Nancy Brumback 155
Joan Roelofs: Greening Cities: Building Just and
Sustainable Communities
By Paul Fleckenstein 157
Tom Athanasiou: Divided Planet: The Ecology of
Rich and Poor
By Tim Stroshane 159
Timothy W. Luke: Ecocritique: Contesting the Politics
of Nature, Economy, and Culture.
By Michael Vincent McGinnis 161

Book Notes 163

Letters 165